{"id":359534,"date":"2025-12-21T10:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T10:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/359534\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T10:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T10:18:10","slug":"backlund-gets-3-points-flames-defeat-golden-knights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/359534\/","title":{"rendered":"Backlund gets 3 points, Flames defeat Golden Knights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Klapka extended the lead to 2-0 at 8:42, getting a piece of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/yan-kuznetsov-8482165\" title=\"Yan Kuznetsov\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yan Kuznetsov<\/a>\u2019s long-distance wrist shot as he skated across the crease.<\/p>\n<p>Smith cut the deficit to 2-1 at 10:03. Stone sprung Smith into the offensive zone with a breakout pass, and he went forehand-backhand under Cooley\u2019s glove on a short breakaway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUse any positives you can get in your game, so it\u2019s nice to see the puck go in the back of the net,\u201d Smith said. \u201cIt would have been nice to help our team get two points tonight, but just keep shooting and hopefully drop some more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lomberg pushed it back to 3-1 at 15:45 when he took a pass from Zary on a 2-on-0 and beat Schmid blocker side with a wrist shot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was nice to see him score,\u201d Calgary coach Ryan Huska said. \u201cI like when he scores at home because the crowd really gets into it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Backlund made it 4-1 with his second goal at 8:38 of the second period, backhanding in a loose puck under Schmid at the left post off an initial shot from Weegar. The assist was Weegar\u2019s 200th in the NHL.<\/p>\n<p>Farabee scored a short-handed goal to make it 5-1 at 12:21. He skated into the offensive zone, cut into the slot from the right circle and put a wrist shot in off the far post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s got good skill,\u201d Huska said of Farabee. \u201cWe\u2019ve seen it from him at different times over the course of the year and having patience like he did on that goal was a really high-end goal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Klapka extended the lead to 2-0 at 8:42, getting a piece of Yan Kuznetsov\u2019s long-distance wrist shot as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-359534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}